Anime Comedies on Netflix

A mad scientist and his friends invent a microwave phone that sends text messages into the past and allows them to travel through time.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 8.8
Netflix rating: 4.5/5
Netflix ID: 80005874 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A blond transfer student desperate for social connection founds a club for people who have trouble making friends. Wacky (and awkward) hijinks ensue.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 8.8
Netflix rating: 2.8/5
Netflix ID: 80132156 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The most powerful superhero in the world can kill anyone with one blow. But nothing can challenge him, so he struggles with ennui and depression.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 8.8
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Netflix ID: 80117291 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

High school delinquent Hanamichi Sakuragi joins the basketball team, discovering his talent for the sport while striving for the championship.

Year: 1996
IMDb: 8.7
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Netflix ID: 70024218 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After Japan's Shogunate is occupied by an alien army, a samurai forced to work as a handyman forms a squad of swordsmen to fight back.

Year: 2006
IMDb: 8.6
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Netflix ID: 80018959 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Kusuo and his gaggle of self-proclaimed friends are back for more psychic mishaps. If he didn't have enough problems before, he's got even more now.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 8.6
Netflix ID: 81054849 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A nomadic swordsman arrives at a martial arts school in Meiji-era Japan, where he lands in the middle of a conflict involving the opium trade.

Year: 1996
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix rating: 4.4/5
Netflix ID: 80016571 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Middle schooler Shigeo looks normal, but he's secretly a formidable psychic whose powers threaten to break free unless he represses his emotions.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix ID: 80179798 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a young laborer escapes to the world aboveground, he discovers a violent land in which humans battle robots controlled by a power-hungry noble.

Year: 2007
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix rating: 4.4/5
Netflix ID: 70213196 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A nameless college junior considers the different ways his university life could have gone, and whether he'll ever win the heart of his crush, Akashi.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Netflix ID: 80169679 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Elementary schooler Momoko Sakura and her friends Ono and Sugiyama get into a variety of scrapes as they grow up together in the 1960s.

Year: 1990
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 01:33:29
Netflix ID: 80171723 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In medieval Tokyo (then known as Edo), aging samurai Gintoki finds himself defending a Japan that has been invaded by aliens.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 8.3
Runtime: 01:35:08
Netflix ID: 70142785 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A time traveler sends Gintoki into the future, where mankind is on the verge of extinction and he must solve the mystery of his own death.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 8.3
Runtime: 01:50:22
Netflix ID: 80090982 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

New student Haruhi stumbles on the Ouran High School Host Club, an all-male group that makes money by entertaining the girls of the school.

Year: 2006
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Netflix ID: 70205014 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When bewitching alien Kisenian threatens to replace the solar system's positive energy with negative waves, youthful adventuress Sailor Moon and her four fellow Sailors jump into action in this feature-length film based on the popular anime series.

Year: 1993
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:00:51
Netflix ID: 26588007 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young girl enjoys everyday life at home with her parents, grandparents and older sister, and at elementary school with her many friends.

Year: 1995
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80083478 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Frustrated with her thankless office job, Retsuko the Red Panda copes with her daily struggles by belting out death metal karaoke after work.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix ID: 80198505 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Menacing in appearance but gentle at heart, Ryuji forms an unlikely friendship with Taiga, a tiny girl with a sharp tongue and a tough attitude.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Netflix ID: 80049275 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

SOS Brigade chief Haruhi Suzumiya announces that they are going to hold a Christmas party, but a couple of days later, Haruhi goes missing.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:43:05
Netflix ID: 70223722 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The proudly privileged top two students of an elite school each makes it their mission to be the first to extract a confession of love from the other.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix ID: 81061754 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After a peculiar homeless man makes him human again, ex-vampire Koyomi helps other high school students with their own supernatural predicaments.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Netflix ID: 80060347 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

To keep the boys in line, student council president Misaki runs the school with an iron fist -- while secretly working as a waitress at a maid café.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 8
Netflix ID: 81104406 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Jigen tells a reporter the story of how he, Lupin, Fujiko, Goemon and Inspector Zenigata first met and became entangled in one another's lives.

Year: 2002
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix rating: 4.2/5
Runtime: 01:31:29
Netflix ID: 70132671 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After a dip in a cursed spring, the heir to a martial arts dojo turns into a girl whenever he is splashed with cold water. His fiancée is not amused.

Year: 1991
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Netflix ID: 80147117 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Yuki's family harbors a strange secret: If any of them are hugged by a member of the opposite sex, they transform into animals of the Chinese zodiac.

Year: 2001
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix ID: 70204976 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Teenage shut-in Kazuma dies ignominiously and the goddess Aqua offers him reincarnation in a game-like fantasy world. He accepts, taking her along.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80131674 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In these short episodes, three students at an all-boys high school enjoy hanging out and not doing anything particularly noteworthy or momentous.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Netflix ID: 80146301 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Experience a day in the life of the Tachibana family. With wacky misadventures galore, life in this household is anything but ordinary.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix ID: 80203171 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

With his warm hands and unbridled vision, Kazuma sets his sights on creating a signature bread for Japan, learning from worthy rivals along the way!

Year: 2004
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix ID: 81424091 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Thwarted in their attempt to take over the world of Ente Isla, Satan and his general Alciel land in modern-day Tokyo, where they take on human form.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 4.5/5
Netflix ID: 80006149 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The Matsuno sextuplets are grown up, but they're not exactly adults: The brothers still live in the same home and stumble through life, jobs and love.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80104460 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Lupin, his sidekick, Jigen, and the samurai warrior Goemon set out to take over an evil counterfeit operation at Count Cagliostro's fortress.

Year: 1979
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:39:33
Netflix ID: 70050576 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Office worker Kobayashi's boring life changes after she drunkenly saves a dragon. To pay her back, Tohru takes human form and becomes her maid.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix ID: 80186349 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A college student joins the local diving club after meeting some rowdy upperclassmen. New adventures in booze and the ocean await.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix ID: 81169530 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Above-average student Takashi Kamiyama enrolls in Cromartie High. Common sense isn't too common in this whacky school for bizarre delinquents.

Year: 2003
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix ID: 70023575 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Having vanquished a powerful demon at age six, precocious wizard Wang Ling must now navigate high school life as an ordinary teen.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix ID: 81364944 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When they're not gorging themselves on sugary snacks, four aspiring high school musicians crank out catchy tunes as members of the Light Music Club.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 4.1/5
Netflix ID: 80003477 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The seniors in Sakuragaoka High School's music club live out the graduation trip of their dreams when they celebrate by performing in London.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:49:51
Netflix ID: 80093820 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a young high school student is killed by a girl on his very first date, he's revived by a girl devil and made a devil himself.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 3.2/5
Netflix ID: 80005873 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The five male students of a formerly all-girls school must contend with the draconian Underground School Council and their own lascivious desires.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix ID: 80182081 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Louise, a second-year student at the Tristain Academy of Magic, follows in her family's aristocratic footsteps to someday become a powerful mage.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix ID: 80193662 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

One strange night in Kyoto seems to last a year. One hapless college student wants to confess his love to his classmate, but she's on her own journey.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.6
Runtime: 01:32:36
Netflix ID: 80990742 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A closeted fangirl begins dating a coworker and hardcore gamer. For these unrepentant nerds, navigating a relationship is far from straightforward.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix ID: 81149659 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Goddess Ristarte summons a hero from another world to fight the Demon Lord. She wants a champion, but Seiya's slow-paced style isn't what she expects.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix ID: 81196818 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Three years after their first meeting is violently interrupted, Nasa reunites with the girl he compares to Princess Kaguya — and they get married!

Year: 2020
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix ID: 81422316 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

While Retsuko desperately makes plans for Christmas Eve, her new obsession with seeking validation through social media spirals out of control.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.5
Runtime: 00:22:12
Netflix ID: 81008536 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When Suguru wins a three-day trip to Okinawa, all five students of the rural Asahigaoka school set out for a fun adventure and new friendships.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.5
Runtime: 01:11:07
Netflix ID: 81222110 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Outbid by one dollar for a modest ring at an auction, Lupin plots to steal it from the winner, knowing it's linked to something of far greater worth.

Year: 2005
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix rating: 3.3/5
Runtime: 01:31:45
Netflix ID: 70045799 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

At Fumizuki Academy, lowly students can improve their lot by summoning beastly avatars to defeat their classmates in the elite upper classes.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix ID: 70205609 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

High schooler Yuta wants to leave his past as a delusional weirdo behind. But his classmate Rikka has her own delusions, and she's interested in his.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix ID: 80239860 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Tetsuo's job as a high school teacher gives him lots of chances to research demi-humans, including a vampire, a succubus, a snow woman and a dullahan.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix ID: 81031526 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young woman acts as a mediator between declining human society and the more civilized race of fairies taking its place, leading to strange adventures.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix ID: 81463539 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Shizuku, a hardworking student who isn't interested in socializing, finds an unlikely friend in Haru, an emotionally volatile boy at her school.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Netflix ID: 80011358 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

High schooler Cocoa moves to a European-style village and starts working at the Rabbit House café along with quiet Chino and military girl Rize.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Netflix ID: 80152064 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Chiaki and Nodame have finally made it to Europe, where they must confront cultural difficulties as their talents are tested on a global scale.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80169677 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

High schooler Konata prefers anime, manga and games to homework. Her friends Miyuki, Tsukasa and Kagami don't understand, but they support her anyway.

Year: 2007
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix ID: 80193621 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Pushed out of their forests by human development, the wild tanuki of Tama Hills fight back with their shape-shifting powers — if they can get it right.

Year: 1994
IMDb: 7.3
Runtime: 01:59:29
Netflix ID: 70035036 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Brought back to life as a zombie by a necromancer, Ayumu Aikawa searches for his killer while helping a magical girl and a vampire ninja battle demons.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 4/5
Netflix ID: 80006166 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Chiaki's success as an international orchestra conductor brings him fame but drives a wedge into his relationship with the capricious Nodame.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80169491 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Desperate to fit in, Erika convinces a nice-guy schoolmate to pretend to be her boyfriend. But she soon learns he's not as kind as he seems.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80170348 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

As one of the few boys at a formerly all-girls school, Takatoshi reluctantly joins the student council while dealing with his colorful classmates.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix ID: 80212542 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Umaru is the ideal high school student: smart, pretty and caring. But at home, she's a lazy, soda-guzzling gamer. Only her brother knows the truth.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix ID: 80205564 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An awkward half-demoness moves into a special high-security building for people like her, but she feels stifled by her very loyal personal bodyguard.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix ID: 80207320 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Raku, the heir to a yakuza family, must fake a relationship with the daughter of a rival faction in order to keep the peace between the two families.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix ID: 80186309 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

With his family deep in debt, Futaro Uesugi accepts a lucrative job tutoring underachieving quintuplet classmates to help them graduate high school.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix ID: 81152346 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When she gets angry, middle schooler Naoko turns into fierce dinosaur Gauko! Thanks to friends, aliens and more, her life is full of wacky incidents.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix ID: 80216180 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A shy high school kid gets gleefully — but affectionately — teased by a sadistic younger girl in school. Weirdly enough, he kind of likes it!

Year: 2021
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix ID: 81427422 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Kiyo’s a smart kid with no friends, but all that changes when he meets Zatch, a magical child competing in a tournament to be named King!

Year: 2003
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix ID: 70308350 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

International thief extraordinaire Lupin the 3rd must steal a set of priceless photographic plates from a famous art dealer in this installment of the popular anime series. And this time, Goemon and Fujiko want in on the action.

Year: 1998
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix rating: 3.2/5
Runtime: 01:32:48
Netflix ID: 70036136 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A recent high school graduate named Aoba Suzukaze starts working as a character designer for Eagle Jump -- the developers of her favorite game.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix ID: 80193277 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In a world where lewdness is outlawed, the son of a crude terrorist becomes a conflicted freedom fighter for the erotic insurgent group known as SOX.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix ID: 80214725 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Suddenly, they’re all cute little high school students. For these adventurers drawn from multiple worlds, this might be the strangest otherworld yet.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix ID: 81092447 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

With her waistline slowly expanding, high schooler Sakura Hibiki decides to join the gym. But can she fit in among all the hardcore athletes?

Year: 2019
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix ID: 81143618 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Together with his elvish real estate agent, a cowardly dragon disowned by his clan embarks on a journey to find a nice home where he can feel safe.

Year: 2021
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix ID: 81442547 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When Tsukune accidentally enrolls in a school for monsters disguised as humans, he must hide the fact that he's really human or risk losing his life.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 7
Netflix rating: 4.1/5
Netflix ID: 70230165 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Nube looks like a normal elementary school teacher, but he has the power to sense evil spirits and ghosts, battling them with a hidden demonic hand.

Year: 1996
IMDb: 7
Netflix ID: 80177373 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A bored high schooler flounders through the trials of daily life alongside some quirky classmates she'd hoped to leave behind in middle school.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 7
Netflix ID: 81256684 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A dragon figurine lost in the sunken Titanic is the target of an international race, but its history pits Goemon against Lupin and their friends.

Year: 1994
IMDb: 6.9
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Runtime: 01:30:16
Netflix ID: 60026740 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

High school nerd Tomoya forms a game development company with his friends Eriri and Utaha, then recruits his crush, Megumi, to star in their product.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 6.9
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Netflix ID: 80169594 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Theme parks, rush hour and earning money to eat. Two deities enjoy the simple life in modern Japan, but Tokyo's too expensive even for heavenly beings.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 6.9
Runtime: 01:29:48
Netflix ID: 81222943 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Lupin plays bodyguard to a teen and Jigen reunites with an old mercenary pal. Meanwhile, Goemon and Fujiko join forces to steal a gigantic diamond.

Year: 2006
IMDb: 6.8
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:31:30
Netflix ID: 80070093 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This animated adaptation of the quirky four-panel comic brings the random exploits of two offbeat schoolgirls named Popuko and Pipimi to life.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 6.8
Netflix ID: 80228291 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Two hot classmates ask him out -- to confess their love for his friend! Joro’s life goes from bad to worse when gloomy stalker Pansy fixates on him.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 6.8
Netflix ID: 81203219 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When thieves try to steal a file from Fujiko that shows a treasure location, she burns it and escapes. Now Lupin must find her before the thieves do.

Year: 1999
IMDb: 6.7
Netflix rating: 3.2/5
Runtime: 01:31:35
Netflix ID: 70040727 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When the Sumikko friends find a picture book in the basement of their favorite cafe, they get pulled into a whole new world!

Year: 2019
IMDb: 6.7
Runtime: 01:05:28
Netflix ID: 81441316 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Impertinent kindergartener Shinnosuke 'Shin' Nohara goes through life causing trouble and confounding his family and friends, who love him anyway.

Year: 1992
IMDb: 6.6
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Netflix ID: 80152850 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When the school idol catches mediocre student Keita looking at questionable games, she invites him into the game club, opening up a whole new world.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 6.6
Netflix ID: 80196680 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

High schooler Shinobu is ecstatic when Alice Cartelet, whose family she stayed with in England, comes to live with her in Japan.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 6.6
Netflix ID: 80193646 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Normal 17-year-old Kyosuke isn't close with his 14-year-old sister Kirino. But then her secret otaku hobby gives them a chance to reconnect.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 6.5
Netflix ID: 80193248 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After being dumped by the first girlfriend he's ever had, Kazuya decides to rent a girlfriend. She seems perfect, but things quickly get complicated.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 6.5
Netflix ID: 81299211 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Teenage Toya is reborn into a fantasy world as an apology from God. Now he's off on an amazing journey through his new home, smartphone in hand.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 6.4
Netflix ID: 80196595 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An ancient Roman architect finds a secret aquatic time portal that leads him to a bathhouse in present-day Japan, inspiring him in his own buildings.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 6.4
Netflix ID: 81289319 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Ichiro keeps running into his hot high school teacher Ms. Kojima in compromising situations. He's not exactly opposed, but it's getting a little weird.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 6.2
Netflix ID: 81092461 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Nate frees a mythical being trapped in a magic capsule, and the two new friends have adventures with all sorts of troublesome supernatural creatures.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 6
Netflix rating: 2.9/5
Netflix ID: 80106136 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The government now assigns everyone a marriage partner. Refusing is not an option. But for these teens, love and lust are beyond their control.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 6
Netflix ID: 80227917 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When teenager Mikan and her eccentric mom switch bodies, the rest of the family tries to adjust while attempting to reverse this peculiar phenomenon.

Year: 2003
IMDb: 5.8
Runtime: 01:35:20
Netflix ID: 80203170 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When Mrs. Tachibana acquires superpowers, cleaning the house becomes a breeze. But when she attempts to play superhero, things quickly go south.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 5.8
Runtime: 00:43:20
Netflix ID: 80203336 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A strange island nation is home to an essentially good but ill-tempered and ugly boy king who must be defended from all sorts of bizarre troubles.

Year: 1982
Netflix rating: 2.9/5
Netflix ID: 80147991 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The Dogs are back! The members of the Armed Detective Agency and the Port Mafia return, creating comedy mischief in chibi form.

Year: 2021
Netflix ID: 81392170 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a kingdom is taken over by tyrants, the deposed princess begins a quest to find a disbanded group of evil knights to help take back her realm.

Year: 2015
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Netflix ID: 80050063 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb